Board Configuration (25%-35%)

Question 1

How do you know if you are in a team-managed or company-managed project?

Answer 1

Look at the bottom of the left menu in your project.

Question 2

What are the available methods for assigning colors to cards on a Company-managed Board?

Answer 2

• Queries
• Issue types
• Assignees
• Priorities

Question 3

Does the roadmap view in Jira Software work when issues from the backlog are associated with multiple projects?

Answer 3

NO

Question 4

True or False:

For a roadmap to show, your project needs to have an issue configured as an epic issue type

Answer 4

TRUE

Question 5

Can a Project Admin create an automation rule that spans more than one project?

Answer 5

NO
- Project Admins can only create automation rules that affect their project

Question 6

“Manage Sprints” permissions allow a user to?

Answer 6

Create, Start, and Complete sprints in their project. This includes adjusting the sprint duration and goal.

Question 7

Which board type can use a Burnup Chart?

Answer 7

SCRUM board

Question 8

Which board type has the “The Board sub-filter” option

Answer 8

Kanban Company-managed boards

Question 9

4 common features between team-managed boards and company-managed boards

Answer 9

• Cycle Time Report
• Display the Versions Panel
• Display the Backlog View
• Display the Epics Panel

Question 10

Name two ways to link an issue to an epic

Answer 10

• drag and drop it using the board
• modifying the “Epic link” in the issue

Question 11

“Hide Completed issues older than” provides 4 options, what are they?

Answer 11

You can only choose between the following values:
- “1 week”
- “2 weeks”
- “4 weeks”
- “Never mind, show all”.

Question 12

As a general rule, a swimlane will not be displayed if and only if:

Answer 12

• No results correspond to the swimlane
• OR, issues of the swimlane also belong to other swimlanes ranked higher than the current swimlane

Question 13

What do work-in-progress (WIP) limits do?

Answer 13

• They set the maximum amount of work that can exist in each status of a workflow

NOTE - They do not prevent issues from being displayed on the board.

Question 14

What is a Swimlane?

Answer 14

A swimlane is a horizontal categorization of issues in the Active sprints of a Scrum board or on a Kanban board.

Additional Info: You can use swimlanes to help you distinguish tasks of different categories, such as workstreams, users, application areas, etc. Swimlanes do not hide issues.

Question 15

What does Enable Ranking allow a user to do?

Answer 15

• Allows you to rank issues on a board by drag-and-drop
• Create sprints on Scrum boards
• And also enables Jira Software to group sub-tasks together underneath their parent issue.

NOTE - By default ‘Ranking’ is enabled on Company Managed boards

Question 16

Where would a Projet Admin or Board Admin enable ‘Ranking’?

Answer 16

Board - Settings - Add rank

Question 17

Who may change the configuration of a company-managed board?

Answer 17

To configure the board and any of its settings, you must be either:

• a project administrator for the location of the board
• a board administrator for the board itself

Question 18

How many extra custom fields can be displayed on a card layout, at maximum?

Answer 18

3

Question 19

What type of board should be used when teams want to see work on one board when that work spans multiple projects?

Answer 19

A company-managed board, be it scrum or kanban

NOTE: Team-managed boards can’t span multiple projects.

Question 20

Which type of board has the “Sub-filter configuration” option?

Answer 20

Kanban Company-managed boards

Question 21

What reports and gadgets are impacted by the “Working days” settings on a board?

(5 Charts & 2 Gadgets)

Answer 21

• Burndown Chart, Sprint Report, Epic Report, Version Report, Control Chart
• Sprint Health Gadget, Burndown Gadget

Question 22

What does “Setting the time-tracking option to “Remaining estimate and time spent” do?

Answer 22

Tracks progress by subtracting the value from the Time spent field from the original estimate.